Community Liaison Report #13

Invention Ambassadors:
(a) Welcome to Katherine Druback, the newest Invention Ambassador.  Meet her in this Forum Thread.  She is the IA that will be taking on more of the newer submissions, for now.
(b) If you have an idea in production, remember to email your IA if you are wanting a more recent update.  They appreciate the reminder and will do their best to get you the latest news about your product.
(c) All Submitters: Please add your phone number (it will stay private) in “Edit your profile.”  If your submission makes it to Under Consideration, the phone call you could get will happen sooner, and will be more of an awesome surprise.

What to do about Similar Ideas: Quirky’s Conroy posted this thread to solicit ideas about how to mitigate/prevent problems around similar ideas, and also introduce and explain a new resource: similar@quirky.com.  That 180 comment thread has been summarized in this wikithread, with the tentative plan that the community solutions will be voted on and prioritized by the community.  You can continue to add your solution ideas on either thread.

Presale Influence Update: there has been discussion (in both this GS Topic and this Forum Thread) about what to do with certain products (those that had prior commitments) once they go into production in this post-threshold era. A decision has been reached, which partly indicated that “If people follow-through on their commitments, they will see the same influence they expected when they decided to make those commitments.” To jump to the full Quirky decision, click here.

Pimping: There is renewed discussion about what to do around unwanted submission promotion in the Forum (and within submission comments).  You can read the ongoing email dialog with Quirky in this thread.

Head of Community: continues to be a hot topic. Voice your thoughts here.

Other Noteworthy Forum Threads: (a) The Quirky Lounge, (b) Why do you Quirky?, (c) Forum Improvement, (d) Newbies welcome

In case you missed it: Ben’s Tweet (1/13): Move week officially upon us. Quirky is closing down broadway in nyc starting at 4am to crane out our equipment.

To discuss this report further, please do so in the corresponding Forum Thread.

If you have any comments or questions not better suited for the thread above, please email me at matt@quirkyinc.com (but please don’t use the Quirky messenger).